I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m going to mention it again. If you haven’t clued in yet, I’m a history nut, and Britain is prime hunting territory for me. Coming from Australia, where nothing is much over sixty seconds old, Britain was like Christmas and Valentine’s Day rolled into one for me. My […]
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While short hair for men is the fashion right now in the early half of the twenty-first century, I can’t help but bewail the diminishing numbers of heroes with long hair. When did it stop being sexy? In Romanceland, heroes throughout history and into the realms of the paranormal have enjoyed long locks for decades.
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Just because many (most?) of us reading this post were alive and can remember 1977 far too well, it’s tempting to think that 1977 really wasn’t all that different from 2010. Yeah the clothes were really groovy, and the music was downright embarrassing when you listen to it now (except for those folk who insist
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The United States’ Constitution, that guarantees certain civil liberties, fascinates me from an historical and outsider’s perspective. In particular, the Constitution grants “freedom from slavery and forced labour”. I imagine many people glide right over that statement, barely giving a thought to how powerful a shield it really is. Canada has a Canadian Charter of
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May You Live In Interesting Times You may not like vampires in your fiction because of the blood sucking and the biting…and well, you may just simply be sick of them. They’re everywhere in romance these days, and they’re endlessly sexy and often omnipotent. But I continue to write about them because of their
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at the age of 35, 222 years ago today, in 1791. His music remains a staple in the classics, and has such mathematical preciseness, it is used as music therapy, to encourage creativity and mental alertness. Simply playing Mozart softly in the background while you do anything creative will help bring
In 1980, I was a) living in Australia and b) didn’t have access to commercial television, but even *I* heard about the fuss over who tried to do ol’ JR in. The Who Shot J.R.? episode of the television evening soap Dallas was seen by more U.S. viewers than any other television program in history.
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Howard Carter and George Herbert discovered the entrance to King Tutankhamen tomb ninety-one years ago today, in 1922. They may have guessed what was inside, but the fact that the tomb was virtually intact, with all Tut’s wealth and worldly goods about him was a rare find and received a huge amount of press from
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The Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico; el Día de los Muertos, where it is a very big deal indeed, with parades and rituals of all kind that paranormal romance lovers should shiver with delight over. In particular, the Catrinas (both dolls and made-up women) that are a part of the celebrations are
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